Lintian tag: relative-symlink

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Symbolic links between different top-level directories should be absolute.

If you use debhelper, running dh_link after creating the package structure
will fix this problem for you.

Please refer to Symbolic links (Section 10.5) in the Debian Policy Manual
for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: files/symbolic-links
Renamed from: symlink-should-be-absolute

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
base-files 13.5 base-files/13.5 overridden relative-symlink usr/bin [bin] 9
base-files 13.5 base-files/13.5 overridden relative-symlink usr/sbin [sbin] 9
base-files 13.5 base-files/13.5 overridden relative-symlink usr/lib [lib] 9
base-files 13.5 base-files/13.5 overridden relative-symlink ../usr/lib/os-release [etc/os-release] 9
base-files 13.5 base-files/13.5 overridden relative-symlink usr/lib64 [lib64] 3